M. Wilfrid de Fonvielle, kneeling down by the side of the car, was perpetually "taking observations," and persistently asking for "the readings," which the gentleman from Cambridge occasionally protested his inability to supply, owing either to Burnaby having his foot upon the aneroid, or to the Captain so jamming him up against the side of the car that the accurate reading of a scientific instrument was not only inconvenient but impossible.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
The ice came on, ramming and jamming-and in an instant the stern was cut off, and was crushed to kindling-wood.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
"But our Ordnance Department claims that they cannot fire two thousand rounds without heating and jamming," I remarked.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell